Being considered a professional is important. But most of us are 'old' professionals, not old in age, but old in thinking style and approach to living. Old professionals separate science and spirit and think in terms of either/or - 'you're either for me, or against me.' New professionals connect science and spirit and think in both/and terms. Please read: The New Professionalism: Connecting Science and Spirit, available at www.WisdomAtWorkUSA.com.

Friday, May 31, 2013

Devorah was blessed with visions of the future. In one she
foresaw the Holocaust and in another, the restored Jerusalem of today. In the following vision
she is a PH.D. student in a neuroscience lecture. Science as we understand it
was unknown in Devorah’s time and she marvels at its ability to explain much of
what she knew of how God worked.

“Do you know the difference between being conscious and
being consciously aware,” the lecturer asked? “The human brain has a unique
capacity – reflection – conscious awareness, the ability to observe and
understand its own inner workings - consciousness. A neurological
transformation occurs when we reflect causing the brain to grow stronger
connections between its different parts. We are able to see patterns and habits
and discern the fundamental differences between everyday consciousness and
consciousness itself.

“We are able to connect the oldest most primitive part of our
brains – the amygdala – the fear center, source of the flight or fight
response, with the newest parts – the insula and anterior cingulate, source of
compassion, hope, joy and creativity. With the practice of self reflection” -
what I think of as going within first, prayer and mindfulness, Devorah realized
– “we can actually shrink the size of the amygdala, alter the thalamus and thus
change our perception of reality. We can even expand frontal lobe consciousness
and with it our ability to think with concepts and abstractions and enhance
intuition, compassion, creativity, and decision making skills.”

Devorah smiled. So, she thought, this is the scientific
explanation of the at-one-ment, of my connection to God and spirit and my
birthright as a spiritual being having an earthly experience! This is the
reason our daily prayers and rituals work!

“Set aside ten to twenty minutes a day for watching but not
judging the thoughts and feelings that endlessly flow through your everyday
consciousness and you will become calmer, sharper and more compassionate. Stay
completely relaxed and centered while doing this and insights with the power to
reshape your entire life will soon erupt. That’s the difference between being
conscious and being consciously aware.”

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

“It will take a miracle for us to defeat the Canaanites,”
Barak said to Devorah. “They have iron weapons, we have only copper ones. They
outnumber us 5 to 1. They have 400 chariots, we have none.”

“All true my general,” Devorah said. “But if we have just a
little willingness and allow spirit to shift our thinking we will have all the
power we need.” Barak shook his head doubtfully. “We can’t know how the
Canaanite defeat and our victory will occur, Barak. We can only know that with
God all things are possible.

“We on earth have no conception of limitlessness for the
world we think we live in is a world of limits. The miracle brings the laws of
another world to this one. The miracle itself is but a witness that we have the
power of God in us. Of course, the Canaanites also have the power to witness.
But if they do not believe as you and I and our people must believe, then It will not work for them. It is only as strong
as our belief in It. If we believe a little, It will manifest a little. If we
believe a lot, It will manifest a lot.

“Those who remember always that of themselves they can do
nothing and know nothing, and who have become willing to do what is necessary
and learn everything, will learn it. That is the way of miracles. Whenever we
trust ourselves, ourSelves can not teach us and we will not learn. Thinking we
have learned and already know destroys our motivation to learn. Whenever we
think we know, even of Spirit’s love and miracles, we have abandoned the
Teacher of peace. Remember, it is the ego that plans, fears and must know.
Whenever we realize we know not and don’t care or worry that we know not, peace
and knowing will return. Miracles come when we let go and let God.”

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

“Ask not to be forgiven, for this has already been
accomplished,” Devorah said to the multitude. “Ask, rather, to learn how to forgive,
and to restore what always was to your unforgiving mind. At-one-ment with
spirit, everyone and everything becomes real and visible to those who use it.
This is your only function within the ego’s illusory nightmare. You will feel
isolated, alienated and guilty till you learn this. For in the end, whatever
form it takes – fear, hate, blame, disease – guilt arises from your failure to
fulfill your function in spirit’s mind and in your own.

“Decide that spirit is right and you are wrong about
yourself. Fail not in your function of loving in a loveless place made of
darkness and deceit, for thus are darkness and deceit undone. Fail not
yourSelf. For the little appreciation you offer It, It will give you all of
Itself. Learn how to go within, seek the at-one-ment and decide with God. Give
up these frantic and insane attempts at decision making that cheat you of the
joy of living as yourSelf. Leave all decisions for the inner voice that speaks
for spirit. Only your own volition seems to make deciding hard.

“Your task is not to make reality. It is here without your
making, but not without you. You who have tried to throw yourSelf away and
valued your at-one-ment with spirit so little, remember that communication with
spirit is life. Nothing without it is at all.”

Friday, May 24, 2013

“Every decision you undertake alone, without going within
and asking the still small voice’s counsel, signifies you would define what
salvation is, and what you would be saved from.”

“But we have the Ten Commandments and all God’s other laws.
Surely all we need do is follow them?” Malachizer protested.

“Those are good guidance, Malachizer, but not enough. Each
of us is a center of divine wisdom, living in times Moses could not have
conceived of. Be quiet in your faith in the spirit that only loves, blesses and
condemns not, that sees through the illusions and insanities of the ego’s
nightmare world. Madness may be your choice, but it is not your reality. All of
spirit’s love is always and ever available to us, free and clear, without rules,
commandments, rituals or dispensations and in spite of our imagined sins.

“Go within first, seek and heed spirit’s guidance. It always
knows and is always willing to love, support and guide. Why struggle so
frantically to anticipate all you cannot know, when all knowledge lies behind
every decision you allow the still small voice to make for you?How gracious it is to decide all things
through the one power that loves all things equally and alike. It includes
everyone and everything, judges not and excludes no one and no thing.

“In everything be led by It, and do not reconsider. Trust It
to answer quickly, surely and with love for everyone and everything that will
be touched in any way by the decision you are facing. Would you take unto
yourself the sole responsibility for deciding what can bring only good to
everyone and everything? Could you even
know this? Unlearn isolation through spirit’s loving guidance and learn of all
the happy communication that you have thrown away but could not lose.”

Thursday, May 23, 2013

“The journey that we undertake together, beloveds,” Devorah
said to the multitude. “Is the exchange of dark for light, of ignorance for
understanding, of hate, blame and fear for love, joy, compassion and
creativity. Nothing that you understand aright, as a spiritual being having an
earthly experience, is fearful. It is only in darkness and in ignorance that
you perceive the frightening and shrink away from it into deeper darkness. Only
the hidden can terrify, not for what it is, but for its hiddenness.

“The obscure is frightening because you do not understand
it. If you did, it would be clear and you would no longer be in the dark.
Nothing can have hidden value for what is hidden cannot be shared, so its value
in unknown. The hidden is kept apart, but value always lies in joint
appreciation. What is concealed cannot be loved, so it must be feared.

“The quiet light within in which you dwell and which is yourSelf,
is perfect openness, in which nothing is hidden and therefore nothing is
fearful. Attack will always, always, yield to love if it is brought to love,
not hidden from it. There is no darkness that the light of love will not
dispel. What is kept apart from love cannot share its healing power.

“Why when all the love, blessings, creativity, miracles,
compassion, peace and joy there is await your attention, would you turn from
it, deny it and indulge in fear mongering, hate, exclusion, constriction, blame
and punishment instead? Stop! Just stop and turn from darkness to light.”

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Malachizer, the High Priest, was a man of traditional
beliefs who saw God as a rule bound judge, meeting out justice – rewards and
punishment - to the humans below Him. Devorah saw God differently as a benign
and loving power. Malachizer would see the devastation at Moore, OK,
as God’s will, as some kind of punishment for humankind’s original sin.

“Never ask what you have done to make yourself worthy of
God’s gift of life, Malachizer, or what you must do to find favor in His eyes
and avoid His wrath. God is but love and life and knows you are worthy of
everything. You need not decide whether or not you are deserving, God knows you
are.”

Malachizer frowned. “Would you deny the truth of God’s
decision and place your pitiful appraisal of yourself and humanity in place of
Its calm and unswerving love?” Devorah asked. “Nothing can shake spirit’s
conviction of the perfect purity of everything that It created. Do not decide
against It. Peace abides in every mind that quietly goes within and accepts the
at-one-ment that is its birthright. Go within first, Malachizer. Only go
within! You know not of salvation, for your limited ego-bound self can not comprehend
it. Make no decisions about Justice, Compassion and Peace on your own with ego,
but ask the still small voice within, and leave all decisions to its gentle
counsel.”

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

As I watched the pictures of the devastation at Moore, OK,
and thought of what my brothers and sisters were enduring there my heart broke
open and I almost cried. I felt anger too, because this need not have been so
fierce, that what happened in Moore, OK, was something we did and are still doing
to ourselves, something that we can stop doing, but won’t. How sad!

Yes tornados and hurricanes will come, but their intensity
and frequency, the destructiveness and duration we’ve seen in recent years are
very likely the result of global climate change. Yet like so many other things
– poverty, child and spouse abuse, drone strikes and joblessness – we deny
responsibility for what is happening. Perhaps you and I as individuals are not
directly responsible, but collectively we are.

Churchill said people get the government they deserve. How
sad and how true! Lately what is being done and left undone in our name as
Americans makes me ashamed. We do indeed seem to have the best government money
can buy. Not so much at the local level, but at the state and federal levels
that’s shamefully obvious. Yet we allow it. What goes on is a reflection of our
beliefs. It is done unto us as we believe.

The challenge is to help one another release the beliefs and
kinds of thinking that have created our present situation. We don’t want to
cling to the old rugged cross, we don’t want to do more of the same - blaming,
fearing and hating one another. All that’s of the ego. We’ve got to let that
kind of feeling, thinking and behaving go. We’ve got to, or it will only get
worse! The handwriting’s on the wall, will we heed it?

The enemy’s not out there in the form of the Chinese or
al-Qaida, it’s in here, inside us. We have met the enemy and they is us, Pogo
said 40 years ago. We don’t need more tanks and aircraft carriers to defend us,
we need education, creativity and innovation. Global climate change can be
managed. Lives and property can be saved. The billions we spend on defense can,
if we have the insight, inner faith, vision and courage, be re-programmed to
solve our real challenges, to defend us from what we really need to be defended
against – poverty, child and spouse abuse, drone strikes and joblessness,
blaming, fearing and hating one another.

The destruction of Moore,
OK, can be an opportunity, not
for the martyrs who died and suffered there for their and our ‘sins’, but for
the rest of us. Let’s do what we can to have fewer Moores, Sandy Hooks and
Katrinas. There’s lot’s we can do. Let’s stop doing what we always do -
thinking, feeling and behaving with the ego’s pride and hubris, thinking we can
build a sand castle that will hold back the tide. Instead, let’s do what we
really haven’t given a chance, go within seek the Kingdom first – its
compassion, inclusion, love and creativity and go from there. After all, if we
always do what we always did, we’ll always get what we always got – Moore 1999, Moore 2013 and Moore…?

Friday, May 17, 2013

“Beloveds,” Devorah said to the multitude gathered in the
oasis. “Each day, each hour and minute, even each second, you are deciding
between ego and spirit. In spite of how it seems within the ego illusion, these
are the only two choices: ego and spirit, love or hate. They are all and the
power of decision is all that you have. There is no overlap between truth and
illusion. They are opposites that can not be reconciled for they cannot both be
true. You, me and everyone else even the Canaanites, T Partyers, Republicans
and Philistines are either guilty or guiltless, bound or free, unhappy or
happy.

“Everyone you offer guiltlessness, healing, freedom and
happiness to you, returns it. Everyone you attack keeps it and cherishes it by
holding it against you. The cost of giving is receiving. Every thought and
interaction is another opportunity to replace darkness with light and fear with
love. Remember, beloveds, that darkness and fear are nothing but ego illusions
and will pass when you look at them clearly with spirit beside you. By giving
power to nothing, we throw away the joyous opportunity to learn that nothing
has no power. Teach no one that they have hurt you, for if you do, you teach
yourself that what is not of spirit has power over you.”

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Yael smiled, feeling the rightness and comfort of Devorah’s
words. “Yes, good,” Devorah said, seeing her colleague’s awareness blossom. “In
reality, you cannot beas you thought you were. Your guilt is without reason
because it is part of the ego illusion that you have projected out and is no
part of your true identity.

“You can not enter into real relationships with any of God’s
children – even Canaanites, T Partyers and Republicans, unless you love them
all equally. This is difficult and takes effort. Realizing love is not special
and if you single out only part of yourSelf to love, you’re projecting guilt on
all of yourSelf. Projection is not partial, it’s total. Seek not to break yourSelf
apart. It is one and whole. Love as spirit loves for there is no love apart
from It.

“Until you recognize that this is true, you will have no
idea what love is like. No one who condemns a brother or sister can see himself
as guiltless and in the peace of God. For in truth, no illusion you have held
against yourself or another can effect their innocence or yours. Before the
glorious radiance of your places in the Kingdom, guilt melts away, and
transforms into kindness, never to be quite what it was.

“This is a process, Yael, an ongoing series of opportunities
to go within, see yourSelf and project that instead of the ego’s version of
yourself.”

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

“This is easier to understand than to do, Yael” Devorah said
to her colleague. “But you’ve been thru a great deal and already know the value
of what I’m telling you.” Yael nodded, her long black hair flowing across her eyes.
“I have done some terrible things, Devorah,” Yael said. Devorah smiled and
touched her friend’s shoulder. “What you did, Yael, had to be done. As long as
you believe guilt is justified in any way, in anyone, whatever they may have
done, you will not look within, where you could choose differently and find
your oneness with all that is. The end of guilt will never come as long as you
believe there’s a reason for it. If guilt were real our at-one-ment with spirit
would not be. The purpose of going within first and seeking the at-one-ment is
to dispel illusions such as guilt, not to establish them as real and then
forgive them.

“Not being merciful to yourself and allowing guilt to fester
within you, you project it out, see guilt in others and are unmerciful to them.
The moment, the moment, you realize
guilt is an insane ego illusion, wholly unjustified and without reason, you
will not fear to look upon the at-one-ment and accept it wholly. Look through
the cloud of guilt that dims your vision, and look past darkness to the holy
place where you can see the light. Nothing, no thing, can keep you from the
light that is the truth of who you are and your real identity.

“Release from guilt as you would be released. There is no other
way to look within and see the light of love, shining as steadily and surely as
it has always shone.”

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

“No one,” Devorah continued, “in this distracted world but
has seen some glimpses of the other world, the real world. Yet while we still
value our dark projections, we will deny these glimpses, insisting that we love
what we love not, and avoiding the road that love points out. Love leads so
gladly! It waits but for our willingness to release the illusory world. We wait
but for ourSelves. Give this sad world over and exchange your errors for the peace
and love of God.

“The peace of God passeth our understanding only when we
forget who we are and identify with the ego. Yet it is here and you can
understand it now! The real world is the way that leads to remembrance of the
one thing that is wholly true and wholly ours. All else we have made and lent
ourselves in time and will fade. Love waits on welcome, not on time. The real
world is but our welcome of what always was and is now. Feel it!Know it! The call of joy is in it, and your
glad response is your awakening to what you have not lost.”

Monday, May 13, 2013

175 years after Moses led the Children of Israel out of Egypt, Devorah became a prophet, mother and general - the
first and only female Judge to rule ancient Israel.

Surrounded
by pagan Canaanites practicing ritual sex and human sacrifice, Devorah found
ways to maintain the Hebrews’ belief in the One God and overcome the
Canaanites’ overwhelming military supremacy.

Given the
challenges Devorah faced and overcame and the challenges facing us now, her
ideas are still relevant. They apply to all aspects of being human – political,
military, sexual, economic and show that success centers on being a whole
person integrating spirit, head, heart and hand.

“The ego’s aching world has not the power to touch the real living
world of spirit,” Devorah continued. “You could not give it that, and so although
you turn in sadness from the ego world, you cannot find in it the road that
leads away from it into the other world.

“Yet, beloveds,” Devorah said to the multitude, “the real
world has the power to touch you even here, because it is yourSelf and you love
it. And what you call with love will come to you. Love always answers. All that
you need to give this aching world away in glad exchange for what you really
want and did not make, but was given to you as your birthright, is the
willingness to learn that the one you made is false.

“This is the good news, beloveds! You have been wrong about
the world because you have been wrong about yourSelf. From such a twisted
reference point, what else could you see? The out of mind is out of sight, because what is denied remains there but not
recognized. Spirit abides in you, everyone and everything, but you deny It and
know It not. Be glad that It’s being does not depend on your recognition. It
lives within in the quiet present, waiting for you to leave the past behind and
enter the world It holds out to you in love.”

Friday, May 10, 2013

“Even tho my experience seems to alternate between ego and
spirit when I vacillate, the truth is,” Devorah said, “I can’t see both worlds,
for each world involves an entirely different kind of seeing. The sight of one
is possible because I have denied the other. Both can’t be true, but the one I value
most will seem realest to me.”

So being invested in the ego, having it as my default and
subconsciously valuing it more, I tend to discount spirit, not take it
seriously and experience the possibility of spirit’s love, inclusion,
compassion, peace and creativity as unrealistic, idealistic not serious, naive
and avoiding the real world.

“And yet, Barak,” Devorah continued, “and perhaps for you
too, my good reader, the real attraction of the two worlds is unequal. You do
not really want the world you see, for it has disappointed you since time
began. The homes you built have never sheltered you. The roads you made have
led you nowhere, and no city has withstood the crumbling assault of time.
Because everything we made is a projection of our inner darkness, nothing but
has the mark of death upon it. Hold it not dear, for it is old and tired and
ready to return to dust even as you made it.”

Thursday, May 9, 2013

“I am often overwhelmed, Barak, as you are,” Devorah
confessed. “The darkness I project is so strong and fierce the best I can do is
to move between it and the light. This vacillation is the problem.”

For me too, Devorah, and perhaps for you as well.

The last few posts have focused on vacillation and seeking
the light and the Kingdom within first. That’s because vacillating between
spirit and ego, and not seeking the light of the Kingdom within first, are the
two ‘things’ I’m working on right now. My spiritual practice is to seek the
Kingdom within first and stop vacillating between spirit and ego.

My practice is to be mindful and choose spirit first, and
not feel guilty when I don’t– which is most of the time. When spirit, love,
inclusiveness, creativity and peace are all I want, I will experience only
them. It’s the fear, the guilt and blame of looking out first and seeing the
prejudice, war, hatred, inequality, and hypocrisy that causes me to forget
mySelf and yourSelf.

If I came only from spirit’s inner light, its power and grandeur
could only bring peace. But I vacillate, project my darkness out and become afraid,
seeing something that is merely a projection and not there. Yet this need not
be for in that same place I can look upon spirit and project that out. That is
what I want, to look only upon spirit and know that it is all I want, that I’ve
had enough fear, guilt and blame, prejudice, war, hatred, inequality, and
hypocrisy. Don’t you feel the same, don’t you want only spirit, love,
inclusiveness, creativity and peace?

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

“I think I understand, Devorah,” General Barak said. “Tell
me, General,” she invited. “The darkness is in us, not outside us,” he said.
She nodded. “But so is the light!” “Yes!” Devorah said, throwing her arms
around him and hugging him.

Like General Barak and perhaps you too, I have looked for
the light where it is not and therefore have not found it. My practice now is
to seek the light where it is, within me, and in so doing dispel the darkness
which is also within me. Trying to resolve the darkness I perceive outside me
first, works only temporarily at best. Being angry, frustrated, disappointed,
annoyed and fearful tells me I’m looking for the light where it is not - in a
resolution of the darkness - my fear, annoyance, disappointment, frustration
and anger.

There’s a classic joke about seeking for something where it’s
not. A man sees two people on their hands and knees under a light pole looking
for something. He goes over to them and asks what they’re looking for. “Our car
keys,” they say. The man kneels to help them. After a moment he realizes the
keys are not there. “Where did you last have them?” he asks. They point to a
dark place a few yards away. “Well,” the man says, “why are you looking over
here?” “Because the light is better here….”

Monday, May 6, 2013

“The ego tells us projection’s ultimate purpose is to get
rid of guilt,” Devorah explained to the multitude. “But you can know that this,
like all the ego’s explanations, is a lie and will never work. The best way to
be rid of guilt and to have no need of projection is to let the ego go and be
ourSelves. We are never upset for the reason we think.

“The ego tells us if we project guilt we can get rid of it.
But the deepest split of all comes when we identify with ego and project guilt
because we are actually retaining the guilt. It remains in our minds [as the
movie remains in the movie projector] and by projecting it we are merely
concealing it. We still experience the guilt but having no understanding of its
true cause, make up explanations for our experience of it.

“Beloveds,” she said, opening her arms wide to embrace the
multitude. “The guilt that arises from our belief that we have chosen the ego
instead of God is nothing. For the truth is we remain asleep in God’s embrace,
dreaming we are separate egos. Bring your dark mistaken belief to spirit’s
light and let the light dispel it. Go within, seek the Kingdom, hear the still
small voice and know the wonderful truth of your reality as a spiritual being
having an earthly experience.”

Friday, May 3, 2013

In The Covenant and
The Scrolls, after one of his chats with Devorah, General Barak begins to
understand what she is trying to help him understand and has this dialogue with
himself; a dialogue we might want to have also.

My mind, and yours too, seems split between the ego and
spirit. This is intolerable and so the seeming split, not the mind’s reality as
spirit, is projected out. Thus everything I perceive as the outside world is
merely my attempt to maintain my ego identification, which as an ego I believe
to be salvation. Consider what this means….

I, and you, have become at odds with the world as we perceive
it, because we think it is antagonistic to us. This is a necessary consequence
of what we have done - projecting out what is antagonistic to what is our true
identity, and therefore would have to perceive things antagonistically.

This projection is why I must realize that my hatred is in
my mind and not outside it before I can stop projecting it and get rid of it –
stop going to the screen to fix the out of focus picture and going to the
projection booth instead; and why I must get rid of it before I can perceive
the world as it really is. This is also why the world I perceive is totally
chaotic and without meaning of any kind. It is made of what I did not want and
projected from my mind because I was afraid of it.

Yet this projected world is only in my mind, the mind of its
maker, along with my real salvation. Salvation is a choice. The more invested I
am in the world, believing it outside me, the less control over it I have. Only
be recognizing it where it is will I gain control over it.

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About Me

Writing metaphysical novels is my avocation. Coaching people to get, as Emerson said, "their bloated nothingness out of the way of the divine circuits," is a joy. Bike riding outdoors is an experience of the magnificence that we all have always present within and outside of us.